Making Your Windowsill Into a Potager Garden.
A potager garden is a garden that grows most of the herbs, fruits, vegetables and flowers for a household. It may even grow medicinal herbs. As we move into winter, this is a great strategy as we want to see something lovely and growing in the winter, but our growing capacity indoors is quite limited.
Our evergreen herbs like lavender are sleeping until spring, but some tender herbs like basil, can be brought inside and tended on a warm, sunny windowsill until spring. I like to sprout cuttings of basil continuously all winter long to keep a taste of summer close by.
Bags of spring mx lettuce often get thrown out as we forget about them and they turn to slime in our refrigerator. I stopped buying lettuce long ago and keep several salad mix options growing.
Today I harvested basil and lettuce and planted radish seeds and garlic cloves that were sprouting. This ensures that I always have something growing as a fresh vegetable option. Radishes can be eaten at any stage and the garlic greens add a lovely garlicky/herbal kick to salads, dressings, and sprinkled on to food like chives.
Having living lettuce growing on your windowsill can be incredibly convenient! You can harvest loose leaf varieties one leaf at a time as you need a bit for a sandwich, wrap or garnish. It is very inexpensive, more convenient than shopping and almost zero waste. Many loose leaf lettuce varieties are also quite lovely! It makes a great plant for indoors during the winter.
